Monthly Archives: January 2014

The Internet in 1592

Posted on 01/16/2014 by kunzelman

The Flatterers by Pieter Bruegel is maybe my favorite painting right now, merely because it does such a good job of visually describing the internet in our current period. The painting is less about flattery for me, though, and more … Continue reading →

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Corey Mead Interviewed at WARN

Posted on 01/15/2014 by kunzelman

Chauncey Devega put this on my radar literally months ago (October, according to the post date), but I’ve been powerfully busy in the time in-between. I’ve actually had it open in a tab since then, which is a minor internet … Continue reading →

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The Arcade Review #1 is out

Posted on 01/14/2014 by kunzelman

I rarely straight-up promote publications here, but I really do think you should go check out Zolani Stewart and Alex Pieschel’s The Arcade Review, a monthly(?) publication of criticism about experimental and avant garde games. It is $5, and that $5 … Continue reading →

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Robert Yang on Half Life and Coding and Lots of Other Things

Posted on 01/13/2014 by kunzelman

http://vimeo.com/82290241 I really enjoy this video of a talk Robert Yang gave at the NYU Gamecenter a couple months back. In particular, I like that Yang pushes (and has been pushing in a lot of places like his blog, twitter, … Continue reading →

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Books I Read in 2013

Posted on 01/10/2014 by kunzelman

For previous years, look here: 2012, 2011. This is a list of all the books that I read in 2013. The number is a little bit off — as you can see, I read a whole lot of BPRD in preparation … Continue reading →

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On rrrrrrrroll

Posted on 01/09/2014 by kunzelman

I have had rrrrrrrroll open in a tab on my desktop for a month or more, always trying to figure out what I should write about it. Clearly I am never going to get there. Maybe that’s the point. rrrrrrrroll is about a single … Continue reading →

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The Necessity of Michael Bay

Posted on 01/08/2014 by kunzelman

Recently I had a Facebook friend post this link and write “Is it just me or is whole Polar Vortex thing starting to feel like a Michael Bay movie?” In case you don’t want to check out the link, it … Continue reading →

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Best of This Cage is Worms 2013

Posted on 01/07/2014 by kunzelman

This is coming a little late, but I like to do this for my own records. This is a comprehensive list of the posts I think were the cream of the crop in 2013. You can see 2012’s list here. … Continue reading →

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I Have Launched a Patreon!

Posted on 01/06/2014 by kunzelman

So I finally decided that in a world of Patreon there was no reason not to at least attempt to recoup some of the costs of this blog and my video game creation through direct subsidization by the audience. Here … Continue reading →

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Riff Raff on the History of Videogames

Posted on 01/03/2014 by kunzelman

Riff Raff was on the “Replay” show for Gameinformer recently, and after he utterly slammed the hell out of Toejam and Earl II, he designed a game. At the top, he gave a little bit of a history lesson paired with some … Continue reading →

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